Comptrollers Office Hartford October 18, 1782 Sir In answer to the questions proposed in your Letter of the G^t instant, you will please to observe, that the depreciation Accounts of the Connecticut Line for those surveys before the 1^st of January 1776 were settled by Committees of the State of Army, particularly chosen for that purpose, who met & agreed upon the principles of the Settlement before the Act of Congress of the 18^th of April 1780, was passed — Any information which I therefore undertake to give you will please to consider as being less authentic than what may be derived from the Gentleman who effected the settlement of those Accounts — These principles were settled by the Committee of the State of Army or by Acts of Assembly — That no person who had left the service otherwise than by death before the 1^st of January 1776 should be entitled to a settlement — That all the advances made by the State to the Troops should be charged in the Settlements except what Cloathing had been delivered to them on account of the Continental Allowance — That the money received by the Troops for their nominal Wages should be charged at a mean value, upon a presumption that it had been received from the United States — which was ascertained in the following manner, and included a compensation for the delay of payment of their Nominal